New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1948. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 246 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the bucolic Maine farm life of Henry Beston, known today mostly for his magnificent work Herbs and the Earth. Beston and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, lived on a farm in Northern Maine, near the Kennebec River. A classic work of the Rusticator movement. Fine in publisher's green cloth.....
New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1901. Excelsior Library of Popular Hand Books, no. 64. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 477-556, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements; illustrated. Later edition; originally published in 1878 in the series 'Haney's Trade Manuals', which included works on animal training and sign painting. This is the sole book in the series devoted to food of any sort. Haney's manuals were extracted originally from The Home Mechanic.....
Torino; Turin: Augustae Taurinorum, Apud J.-B. [Jean-Baptiste] Chais, 1736. Quarto (24 x 18.5 cm.), [8], 246, [18] pages. Signatures π A-2H . Illustrated with two large folding engraved plates; woodcut printer’s device and two engraved woodcut initials with architectural scenes. FIRST EDITION. A pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at Turin’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances.....
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San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, [18], 19-249, [13] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format, assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on Lemon Remedies. Local advertisements precede, follow, and are interspersed throughout the recipes. Organized in 1898, San Francisco's Corona Club was a women's charitable and civic organization. At the time of this publication.....
Berkeley, California: [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company, 1903. Octavo (23.25 x 14 cm.), [iv], 171, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition (but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle, author statement, and publisher). A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins, Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke, Mussel Bordelaise, Clam Patties, Spanish Meat Pie, Coffee Fruit Cake, Lemon Cocoanut.....
Devon, England: Prospect Books, 1983. Quarto (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), 218 pages. Glossary. Index. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION thus; the Prospect Books facsimile of the original 1747 edition. The Art of Cookery was the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the wife of an attorney and the mother of eight children, and she published the first edition of her Art of.....
[New York: N.p.], 1935. Menu printed on orange silk (30.5 x 15.3 cm.), [1] page. Printed verso only. Menu for a banquet celebrating the 100th anniversary of the St. Nicholas Society. The menu for the banquet, held at the Waldorf-Astoria, includes some tasty dishes, including Parmesan Straws, Vol au Vont of Sweetbreads with Quenelles and Mushroom Regence. The toasts include one each to Santa Claus, Our City, and Woman. The.....
Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co.; Trade supplied by C.A. Montgomery & Co., 1886, ©1886. Octavo in wrappers (16.5 x 13 cm.), 56 pages. Illustrated, and with fanciful initial letters for each chapter. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. One of the many of cookbooks from the domestic economist Catherine Owen, with much of the culinary advice drawn from the author's column in Scribner's Magazine. Some light soiling to some leaves. In.....
Chicago, IL: Educational Company, 189[7?]. Octavo, selected pages with various pagination [70 leaves], illustrated frontispiece, engraved illustrations. Oil cloth covers, decorated endpapers. Text in English and in German. Salesman's sample book, advertising separate English and German editions, for a subscription publication; postdating editions issued by North American in 1887 and by Acme in 1892, and antedating an enlarged edition published by The Educational Company in 1902. Maud C. Cooke, was.....
Petersburg, Va. Fenn & Owen, Printers & Binders, [circa 1894]. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 206 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Indices to recipes and to advertisers. Author attribution from bibliographical records. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook produced in support of the YMCA Building Fund of Petersburg, Va. The recipes, in short narrative form, are attributed with formal names, and include: Confederate States Pudding, Eggs on Foam, Marguerites, Zimmet Kitchen Buns.....